Nothing reported as fact by the CNN constructionists actually took place. Against, the back drop of CNN’s destroyed credibility, pundit Anderson Cooper attempts to obfuscate and push back against the collapse during a contentious interview with Kellyanne Conway:

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Despite Anderson Cooper’s professional pearl-clutching, even the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper issued a statement refuting the CNN construct:

A standard of expectation must be set, and an example must be made. In addition to revoking the White House press credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta for an extreme display of rudeness and lack of professionalism, I would strongly recommend the Trump Communications team:

♦ Keep using twitter daily, or as determined. Keep using social media, and/or any alternate communications platforms to communicate with the American People.

♦ Discontinue the live-feed broadcast of the Daily White House briefing. Stop allowing a press briefing to be the daily news lede ‘in-and-unto-itself’. Only conduct the WH press briefing when POTUS is actually in the White House. Set an earlier time for the press briefing – ex. 7:30am daily, for a set amount of time, ex. 1hr. Deliver the day’s bullet-pointed news as it pertains to the White House and current events, answer questions and be done.

♦ Ten hour work days. 7am to 5pm. Use TWO Continuous, Alternating, Press Secretaries, not just one.

♦ Have a quarterly lottery for press briefing media attendees. Equal opportunity participation. Seating = first come first seated, general seating, every day.

♦ Drop the traveling Presidential press pool completely. Give the press a daily schedule, and then make media use their own resources to cover the events therein as they deem needed. Equal access without preferential treatment. This also includes foreign travel.

♦ When POTUS, V-POTUS, or cabinet officials travel give first preference to local media, not national. Allow local reporters to ask questions pertaining to their community perspective on the event or engagement.

♦ Drop the insufferable White House Correspondent’s dinner fiasco. It’s a ridiculous bubble event with no inherent value for the country. It’s also a grotesque exhibition of disconnected indulgence and vulgarity. There’s too much work to be done, just go about doing it.

♦ Engage the legacy media as a communications unit. Deliver the Trump message as a communications unit. Have a self-broadcasted roundtable meeting of communications officials with a rotating group of media invited to attend. Maybe every other Sunday etc.

♦ Have POTUS give monthly EVENING press conferences; with part of the presser containing an ongoing and established outline to share progress on agenda. Perhaps half for ongoing efforts, half for current events.

♦ Re-establish a media work ethic by setting high standards, high expectations and a zero tolerance for laziness and unprofessional behavior.

There was a thread on 4chan that was discussing the dossier and an anon claimed that the former MI6 agent is a fake person – they do not exist and that the intel company Orbis has fabricated business documents.
here’s an archive of the thread – http://archive.is/7Zorl
the anon goes on to say:

I’m saying we spent the last 24 hours brute forcing servers, examining all docs related to said business, etc. and researching Christopher Steele. I’m 99% sure that he is a fictional character and Orbis is either A. a fictional company or B. a real company that is a Shell Company. They could have been simply conning donors and compiling a fake report, or they could be behind the fake report to discredit Trump. We are now looking for the first source.

then there is this BBC video where Ted Malloch makes some claims after talking to “British Intelligence this morning” re: the dossier and specifically that the MI6 agent use to be an FBI asset…https://streamable.com/nrqfo

So the company put up a website in 2009. The guy says they only put photos up in 09/2016. My search confirms that the 4channer is correct as far as the 2008 date goes
I don’t know how to confirm the 2016 allegation he makes,

This is as far as my skills go, and don’t know how to verify beyond this point. Anybody else want to jump in, have at it.

If this guy is real, he’s going to have to make a statement sooner or later. Two people who were included in the intelligence report have already publicly stated that is is completely false. If this guy REALLY wrote it, he is going to have to defend his lousy work. If he did not, he is going to have to protect his reputation by denouncing it.

A former British spy has vanished after being named as the author of a ‘dirty’ file smearing Donald Trump and fled his £1.5million mansion in fear telling his neighbour: ‘Look after my cat.’

Ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele has been named as the author of the salacious Russian dossier containing outlandish claims about Donald Trump’s sex life and bizarre footage allegedly held by the Kremlin’s blackmail unit.

Mr Steele served MI6 for nearly two decades in Moscow – and a stint in its Paris Station – and security sources say he once worked with murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who fled to Britain before he was poisoned in 2006.

AH yes – his super secret spy missions took place in Russia… for 20 years?

further:

The BBC has now claimed that there is a second dossier and despite allegations being widely rubbished one journalist said ‘the head of an East European intelligence agency’ insists the sex tape exists.

As summer turned to autumn, the investigator was asked for more information by the FBI but heard nothing back about any investigation. The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides. The FBI’s director, James Comey, threw the election into a spin 11 days before the vote by announcing his investigators were examining newly discovered material.

The former intelligence official grew concerned that there was a cover-up in progress. On a trip to New York in October, he was persuaded to tell his story to David Corn, the Washington editor of Mother Jones, who first reported the existence of the material on 31 October.

The FBI however continued to refuse to comment on the issue, despite reports that it had requested and perhaps acquired a warrant for further investigation from the Foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court. The silence was not altogether surprising. The FBI counter-intelligence division, headquartered in Washington, is extremely secretive, much more so than the New York field office, which had strong links to former prosecutor and mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was by then working for Trump. The threat of leaks from New York about Clinton emails had reportedly pushed Comey into making his October surprise announcement.

I’m very puzzled by the comments on this thread. The issue, I thought, is the Anderson Cooper “interview” with Kellyanne Conway. He refused to let her speak and insisted on talking over her for virtually the entire segment. Instead of discussing CNN/Anderson Cooper “journalism” standards the thread has morphed into a debate about homosexuality. Personally, I don’t care if Cooper has sex with his pet collie. I care about his behavior as a supposed journalist who is using his platform to spread slander against President Elect, Donald Trump.

“But there’s one aspect of his past that the silver-haired CNN star has never made public: the months he spent training for a career with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency’s monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work…….

I agree — this occurs too often when a “stray” comment is posted and hi-jacks the issue that should be discussed. Don’t know if it is by deliberate trolls or folks who just want to stress their “pet” issue. It’s very irritating– I value substantive commentary from fellow informed CTH followers.

AGREE!
Seems like some folks have short attention spans…
I appreciate the great topics and comments about the TOPIC informative and enjoyable, I find the far too many off topic “Oh look, a squirrel” side comments irritating.

Rotating press staff – place a weekly or monthly limit on how many times each “journalist” can attend. Stop the usurped power and entrenched corruption that too long, too cozy relationships bring. Think how badly we need term limits in the Senate (etc). Same thing goes for WH press.

DNI Clapper’s statement that the intelligence community “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable.” is now proven bogus:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4906642,00.html
The American officials further added that they believed Russia President Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump – but did not elaborate. They were apparently referring to what was published Wednesday about embarrassing information collected by the Russian intelligence in a bid to blackmail the president-elect.

The specific details of the hoax weren’t revealed, but its existence was in fact presumed sufficient to warrant warning the Israelis.

So, yeah, the “intelligence community” did make a judgment that the information in the hoax document should be treated as reliable.

This is supposedly the source of this paper. You won’t want to listen to all of this audio but start at 22:25 for the meat of it with his guest Tom.. This started as a joke from Trump supporters agains Rick Wilson because of his never trump stand and because his son was tweeting things about Trump being perverted and having golden showers etc.
This guy Tom said he and he is friends are talking to lawyers to release the original transcripts but they don’t want to get into trouble because it started as a prank.http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/video-4chan-user-describes-origins-golden-showers-segment-trump-dossier/

What we just witnessed was a possible coup attempt if Trump hadn’t had the guts to nip it in the bud. All these anti-American soros-alinskite Marxist globalist arrogant elitists, posing as Americans, who have caused all of our problems, if they were in their beloved Cuba, would be placed against the wall .

Coup to what end? I’ve heard that word thrown around more the past few weeks than I think I’ve ever heard it in my life.. Were they hoping to wound him to the extent that he’d be worthless once he got into power? Or…

Look who/what the firm was involved with the fake dossier on Trump: excerpts

“The firm that made the dubious conclusion that pro-life investigators had “manipulated” undercover videos that caught Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of baby parts is the one that hired the former British spy who authored the debunked salacious dossier on Donald Trump published by BuzzFeed.

Steele, 52, was identified Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal as the author of the memo. The Times cited a source saying the money to hire him came from a wealthy Republican donor who wanted to compile a dossier about Trump’s past scandals and weaknesses…

The Times said the Fusion GPS project was dropped after Trump became the Republican nominee. But allies of Hillary Clinton were interested in the information.

Fusion GPS was hired by Planned Parenthood to put a positive spin on a series of undercover videos showing the sale of baby parts, the Daily Caller reported…

Daily Mail said Steele made more than $1.2 million after working with the FBI to uncover corruption at FIFA, the international body governing soccer. The probe led to the resignation of senior FIFA officials, including president Sepp Blatter.

This interview was a disgusting display of Cooper’s twisted psyche. I’ve never seen him so distraught. Nastiness oozed from his eyes, his mouth and in his expressions. I can’t begin to commend enough KellyAnn for keeping a cool head and a pleasant demeanor